Is there anything more scary than an extremely well-funded government agency investing in projects to mess with DNA? The Broad Institute has announced DARPA’s investment in The Foundry: A facility at the Broad Institute of…

Depending on whether or not you trust the US Government, DARPA’s plan to create vaccines in what Discovery News terms “human bio-factories” will either be encouraging or highly disturbing news: The next…

Under DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics program, a paralyzed 8-year-old man “has become the first person to be able to ‘feel’ physical sensations through a prosthetic hand directly connected to his brain.” DARPA’s press release: A 28-year-old…

It’s tempting to think of DARPA as the US Government’s evil technology agency, but Alexis Madrigal has discovered one DARPA program that might just be an incredible solution to infectious diseases, reporting…

Well more accurately, Dr. Arati Prabhakar, the Director of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) speaks, answering some questions for Engadget: What is DARPA, and what is your job as director? The…

We know you’re all fascinated by the mad science happenings at DARPA and Engadget has helpfully summarized what’s they’re up to: There’s a certain entity within the Pentagon that’s quite (in)famous for…

Here comes the government microchip in the brain that we’ve been hearing about for so many years… Work on DARPA’s Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) program is set to begin with…

Did HAARP secretly manipulate the weather? Or beam mind-control radio waves out to the unsuspecting population? If so that’s no longer a priority. The National Association for Amateur Radio reports: The High…

Aaron Cynic writes at Diatribe Media: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to take warfare to the next level of science fiction by integrating lasers into planes within two years….